“…in 1952… The Republic of China (Taiwan), the People’s Republic of China on the mainland, the Republic of Korea (South Korea), and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) all possessed military establishments far larger than what became Japan’s Self-Defense Forces” Read the rest of this entry »

” …a high official of a leading Japanese research centre… privately acknowledged that the United States with its highly competitive agricultural sector has by now taken the place of Japans prewar colonies, supplying agricultural products and raw materials to a superior modern industrial machine” Read the rest of this entry »

“Among the rumors that went flying around the city was the imaginative one that an unnamed country of the West had developed an eathquake machine and was experimenting upon Japan. There were,nevertheless, no outbreaks of violence against.. westerners. Instead..,the nation turned on Koreans. The government urged restraint .. because the Western world might disapprove.” Read the rest of this entry »